By Sue-Ann Wayow
THE Progressive Empowerment Party (PEP) has fulfilled its promise to light up the area in Debe that has now become known as a “death strip.”
On Wednesday, the PEP together with corporate and individual sponsors placed 12 brightly painted orange barrels 100 feet apart on either side of the Solomon Hochoy Highway extension to Debe, starting 600 feet from the roundabout.
The barrels are topped with prominent solar-powered lights that caution motorists to slow down, PEP’s chairman Felicia Holder said in a statement on Wednesday.
The party is building on the campaign slogan “Phillip Will Fix It” as PEP’s political leader Phillip Edward Alexander vows to deal with issues throughout Trinidad and Tobago.
In a media release four weeks ago, the PEP stated, “The party insists that the signage that currently exists is practically useless when visible and even less so when covered by the roadside shrubbery, and this lack of urgent caution has led to too many preventable deaths by unsuspecting highway users.”
